Manipulator/Harms Way Achievements bugged?

[Erra]

I can't get either of these achievements to pop. I've followed several guides online on how to unlock them but nothing seems to work.

are these achievements you can do in increments? or do you have to manipulate 5 kills all in one fight? what about harms way?

anyone else having trouble getting these achievemnts to unlock?

[Webby]

You need to do it in one run. You can't get one kill and then reload a previous save, you'll loose that kill. That won't work.

[Erra]

I throw 5 guards into a rewired wall of light with possession without reloading/dieing. not sure why wouldn't work.

[rebe]

I guess throwing guards into a rewired wall of light counts as kills. I got my Harm's way achievement by possessing guests at Lady Boyle's party.

For Manipulator I collected the max number of 5 uncounsious guards in one pretty pile, put some whale oil tanks on top (I think some spring razors could do the trick too) and lured a 6th guard close enough to kill them all :) (that actually got me killed as well, but meh, got the achievement!)

[Erra]

It eventually popped on both achievements. had to retry a couple of times. Dishonored achievements are very finicky it seems.

[Zeon]

Originally posted by Jester:

It eventually popped on both achievements. had to retry a couple of times. Dishonored achievements are very finicky it seems.

So can you confirm that throwing Guards into a wall of light works? because I spent like an hour without any success...

[Erra]

I originally tried what you did Zeon. Then i tried the Boyle Party method. And that worked like a charm for Manipulator.

I tried making guards shoot each other for Harm's Way which didn't work no matter how many times i did it. But KO'ing thugs and aggro'ing a firebreather worked perfectly.

Its like the coding for AI/Enemies on certain levels is wonky or something. Hope this helps. you can youtube both methods.

[Scrundle]

I can't offer any advice but I do believe this is bugged, I collected "Manipulator" on my clean hands + no abilities run, never attacked anyone or did anything hostile and I think I was somewhere at the north end of Kaldwin's Bridge when It just popped up on the screen as unlocked.

[Dinerenblanc]

The achievement system in Dishonored is an absolute mess. I wouldn't even bother trying.

[Erra]

im working on the Dunwall Trials achievements now. for one they are freaking WAYYY HARDER than the normal campaign/knife of dunwall achievements. and i hear they are very glitchy.

[Bee]

You can get manipulator by summoning rats into a group of guards, with another group about 15 feet away. The other group starts shooting the rats but ends up hitting the guards instead.